Some good posts from both sides, I do believe Canada produces high quality pilots, but as far as the Europeans go, well at least they are not in debt for most of their twenties, making below poverty line and in most cases working a dock or ramp instead of flying. Aviation is expensive. If you invest $35 or 40K you should leave and be making money (at least 30K) I have friends that spent less than $10K on their education and they make triple what a flight instructor makes. Thats where the system is flaud. Theres no money, no job security. You may say we have the better pilots, what good is that if you can only afford KD and you can't move up because too many high time guys are sitting on the low end jobs. With crazy minimum requirements like 500hrs to fly a 172, what do you expect?
If you enjoy the bush flying thing, then theres no better country to do your flying. But thats about where it ends
If someone asked me if I wanted to fly and make $15K a year or be a button pusher for $55K, Id say where do I sign up for the button pusher job?